The Two Nine North Team is very excited to host our first annual Restaurant Week Taste-Off! Restaurant Week celebrates Boulder’s exceptional dining community and helps to bring our well-deserved reputation into the national spotlight. We invite you to take part as we celebrate the establishments that make Boulder the culinary destination it is. Please join us on January 17, 2012 from 3-6pm as some of your favorite restaurants come together for a cook-off that’s sure to please. What’s the best part? Well, that’s easy… YOU will be the judge! Just bring your taste buds and an empty stomach and we’ll take care of the rest.

[*Banks 5-Island started rolling out in U.S. markets in the fall of 2010. If it isn’t yet available in your area, I’d suggest substituting another flavorful white rum, such as a rhum agricole.]

Add 8 mint leaves, 3 cucumber slices and the simple syrup to a mixing glass and muddle. Add the rest of the ingredients (except the club soda) and ice. Shake and strain into a Collins glass filled with ice. Top with club soda. Garnish with a mint sprig and a cucumber wheel.

Eat your way through town on a guided food tour for a unique taste of Boulder. With over 100 restaurants in the downtown Boulder area, there is plenty to choose from when it comes to finding a great meal. Our Downtown Dining Tours feature some of Boulder’s most creative, award winning chefs. Thoughtfully selected wine and beverage pairings complement the gourmet Front Range Cuisine featured at these restaurants. This is a dining tour, not a sampling tour, so come with an appetite.

Set aside a couple of hours to enjoy a tour through the heart of Boulder’s historic Pearl Street Mall, and find out why we are a top-rated destination city for food lovers and chefs. Or, spend an hour and a half sampling specially crafted libations in Boulder or Denver. Don’t be shy about calling for more information- 303-909-5747.

Have you ever noticed that no other month in our calendar starts on the same day of the week as the month of May? The month of June is also similar in this pattern. No other month ends on the same day of the week as the month of May either. This is fascinating!

The Boulder Cruiser Ride has started! Come enjoy this Boulder bike ride EVERY THURSDAY on a beautiful and fun cruiser bike while meeting locals and other travelers.

This Thursday May 31, 2012 start at Scott Carpenter Park between 7:30-8PM. This week’s theme is Dr. Seuss!

The Ride Guide
To have fun and to be nice to everyone…
To ring thy bell, To wish everyone well…
To sing, to dance, to make merry,
To not bring more than I can carry…
To leave no trace, to Cruise and not to race…
To ride in control and not be a troll…
To stay to the right and to ride with a light…

This coming Monday is the world famous Boulder Boulder!! It’s not to late for registration.

Two Nine North will actively be participating in the race this year. We will be handing out pre-race supplies and teaming up with the Colorado Athletic Club for pre-race stretching. Please look for us and say HI!! We look forward to seeing our residents out in the community.

35. The “something blue” in a bridal ensemble symbolises purity, fidelity, and love.

Food and Family

36. In Egypt, the bride’s family traditionally does all the cooking for a week after the wedding, so the couple can…relax.

37. In South Africa, the parents of both bride and groom traditionally carried fire from their hearths to light a new fire in the newly weds’ hearth.

38. The tradition of a wedding cake comes from ancient Rome, where revellers broke a loaf of bread over a bride’s head for fertility’s sake.

39. The custom of tiered cakes emerged from a game where the bride and groom attempted to kiss over an ever-higher cake without knocking it over.

40. Queen Victoria’s wedding cake weighed a whopping 300 pounds.

41. Legend says single women will dream of their future husbands if they sleep with a slice of groom’s cake under their pillows.

42. An old wives’ tale: If the younger of two sisters marries first, the older sister must dance barefoot at the wedding or risk never landing a husband.

Show Off at a Cocktail Party

43. In many cultures around the world — including Celtic, Hindu and Egyptian weddings — the hands of a bride and groom are literally tied together to demonstrate the couple’s commitment to each other and their new bond as a married couple (giving us the popular phrase “tying the knot”).

44. The Roman goddess Juno rules over marriage, the hearth, and childbirth, hence the popularity of June weddings.

45. Princess Victoria established the tradition of playing Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus” during her wedding processional in 1858.

46. The bride stands to the groom’s left during a Christian ceremony, because in bygone days the groom needed his right hand free to fight off other suitors.

47. There are over 110,000 weddings here in Australia each year.

48. Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve are the two busiest “marriage” days in Las Vegas — elopement central!

49. The Catholic tradition of “posting the banns” to announce a marriage originated as a way to ensure the bride and groom were not related.

50. Bucks parties were first held by ancient Spartan soldiers, who kissed their bachelor days goodbye with a raucous party.